KIMBERLEY MEAD, LPC-S

Relational & Somatic Therapist | Supervisor | Educator | Adoptee

After more than 14 years as a therapist, I’ve learned that some things can only be understood through time. My work is shaped by deep study and ongoing learning, and by what I have lived and witnessed. I’ve come to understand that presence and the permission to be fully human in the room are as essential to healing as any theory or technique.

My Approach

It’s natural to ask “Why?” Why am I like this? Why did this happen? So many whys. If we could just make sense of how we got here, we could find our way out… right? Yet, how often I have heard, “I know that, but it doesn’t change how I feel.” There is a natural longing to feel whole again, to have hope. And when we can’t find that path, we can feel broken and lost. I know I have.

The people I support often come in having lost a sense of who they are beneath the weight of it all. They’ve found themselves in a lonely, isolated place, one they could normally find a way out of but not this time.

I’m here to help you piece together not only what happened, but who you became because of what happened, and how to move toward what comes next with compassion and courage. I’ve found that therapy is a conversation with our grief and our anger. That’s why I work from a relational and somatic perspective. Often, the shift comes from staying long enough to really feel what’s there rather than rushing to make it go away. Our feelings and past often soften when we slow down and make room for what’s been lost, to sit with the things that don’t make sense yet, and to listen with compassion and openness to what’s happening underneath what we already know.

Here, if you need to swear, swear. If you need to cry, cry. And when words aren't enough, we'll find other ways to listen to what is happening beneath the surface through movement, sensation, imagery, or simply paying attention to what your body already knows. And sometimes, even in the middle of hard things, there is room for laughter because sometimes it’s needed to help soften the heartache.

A Little About Kimberley

Who I am is woven into the work I choose to do.

I have always been deeply curious about people, their stories, how they experience the world, who they are, and who they might become. This has been the thread that connects the different chapters of my life.

As my mother was a Canadian and my father a Californian, I was fortunate to grow up in creative communities in both countries. I went to school for photography, and then spent my early years in corporate America, working first as a graphics and UX designer, then as a traveling business consultant, and eventually as a creative director.

When I shifted my career, I decided to become a therapist with the focus of working with adults who had been adopted because I knew from the inside that adoption can leave people carrying questions, longing, and a complicated search for belonging and connection. As often happens, I took a turn along the way.

Early in my career, I found myself working at a grief center and discovered how deeply meaningful the work was to me. Working with those whose loved ones had died opened a deep, honest presence in me that felt both tender and grounding. Since then grief, like it does eventually for all of us, knocked on my door. I’ve tended to illness, said goodby to loved ones including both my parents, and kept vigil at the bedsides of dying friends and family. Grief has many lessons, most of them cannot be found in a book they must be lived through.

I still feed my creative spirit through acting and photography. And as you can see, enjoy time with my pups and a bossy black cat.

Areas of Support

• Grief & Loss · Adult Adoptees · Relationship Struggles · Meaning & Identity · Burnout & Overwhelm · C-PTSD

For Clinicians:

• Clinical Consultation · LPC Supervision · Workshops · Consultation Groups · Coaching for Private Practice

Locations

• Virtual throughout Texas & Georgia · In-Person in Austin near Zilker Park

Fees

• Individual and Couples Sessions: Standard 60 minute session: $190 · Extended 90 minute Session: $285
  Hardship Rate may be available for those in need. Starting at $140

• Case Consultation: Standard Fee: $190 per hour
  For new therapists in their first two years of practice, I charge the same as your full published clinical rate.

Core Appraoches

• NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) · Somatic Experiencing (SE) · Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
  Attachment Theory · Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

Credentials

• Licensed in Texas & Georgia · Board Approved LPC SupervisorNARM Certified Therapist

• Master’s in Counseling, St. Edwards University · Full CV

• Poly & Kink Knowledgeable · LGBTQIA+ Affirming